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IP Quality of Service
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IP Quality of Service

by Srinivas Vegesna
January 2001
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
11h 35m
English
Cisco Press
Content preview from IP Quality of Service
Objectives 15
End-to-End QoS
Layer 2 QoS technologies offer solutions on a smaller scope only and can’t provide end-to-
end QoS simply because the Internet or any large scale IP network is made up of a large
group of diverse Layer 2 technologies. In a network, end-to-end connectivity starts at Layer
3 and, hence, only a network layer protocol, which is IP in the TCP/IP-based Internet, can
deliver end-to-end QoS.
The Internet is made up of diverse link technologies and physical media. IP, being the layer
providing end-to-end connectivity, needs to map its QoS functions to the link QoS
mechanisms, especially of switched networks, to facilitate end-to-end ...
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